The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett for Murder, Held at the Central Criminal Court from Monday, April 12, to Saturday, April 17, 1886 |
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Page 226 - the system like alcohol : but as a liquid it cannot be regarded as an active poison. A man s wallowed four ounces of chloroform. He was able to walk for a considerable distance after taking this dose, but he subsequently fell into a state of
Page 73 - 14 St. James Street, Dover, Monday. DEAR GEORGE,—Permit me to say I feel great pleasure in thus addressing you for the first time. To me it is a privilege to think that I am allowed to feel towards you as a brother,
Page 225 - p. 549), and this seems the only possible condition under which it could be conveniently used for improper purposes, unless considerable force was employed to prevent the person struggling, which, under ordinary circumstances, would be an almost insurmountable difficulty to its use.
Page 290 - help loving you ? I felt that I must say to you two words, ' Thank you," and my desire to do so is my excuse for troubling you with this. Looking towards the future with joyfulness, I am yours
Page 309 - Thank you very much for the brotherly letter you sent me yesterday. I am sure I respond from my heart to your wish that our friendship may ripen with the lapse of time, and I do so with confidence, for I feel that our friendship is founded on a firm, abiding basis—trust and esteem.
Page 73 - felt that I must say two words, ' Thank you,' and my desire to do so is my excuse for troubling you with this. Looking towards the future with joyfulness, I am yours affectionately, EDWIN.
Page 308 - Permit me to say I feel great pleasure in thus addressing you for the first time. To me it is a privilege to think that I am allowed to feel towards you as a brother, and
Page 224 - The main result appears to answer the question in the affirmative, at least with certain persons; but even with these, it can only be done by using the greatest skill and care, first allowing the sleeper to breathe very dilute chloroform-vapour, and then gradually exhibiting stronger doses, and taking the cloth or inhaler away on the slightest symptom of
Page 284 - aroused suspicion, and also with the "evidence which I hope and believe has demolished and destroyed that suspicion, and that spirit will speak in firm and unfaltering voice when your verdict tells to the whole world that in your judgment Adelaide Bartlett is Not Guilty.